2019 Vincent Chardonnay Tardive

Like us, our friend Vincent Frirtzsche is another Southern California expatriate, and a fellow wine lover. Following his passion, he staged in the wine cellar of our friend Mike Carlisle at Carlisle Vineyards in Santa Rosa before the turn of the millennium. Vince then moved his family up to Portland, and he began making his own single vineyard wines in the Eola Hills of the Willamette Valley in 2009.

Vince makes small-batch production of excellent wines, loaded with character and expressive of the local vineyards he selects, and offers them at a very fair price for their quality.

Vincent’s 2019 Chardonnay Tardive, which means “late” in French, is so named in this instance not because it is late-harvested, but because this wine spends between 16-18 months resting in neutral oak barrels. It is a generous and forthcoming chard, full-bodied with a creamy texture, offering tropical fruit flavors topped with tangy lemon-lime notes, a fine acid spine, with a touch of saline and flint.